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1860 pattern $5. J-272, P-320. Rarity-6-. |
| Description: |
Gilt copper. Reeded edge. Bright yellow with olive highlights. Some pale blue and deep
gold cloudiness in the fields. A sharply struck representative example of this half eagle
pattern struck on a broader eagle-sized planchet, reportedly in an effort to find a half
eagle that would not be easily counterfeited. Longacre's portrait of Liberty facing right,
is at once forceful and dynamic, though the reverse eagle's stature is small enough that
the bird looks lost. A neat variety with the V in FIVE actually an inverted A. Harry Bass
took a liking to this issue, procuring three examples between May 1970 and April 1972. The
present coin is the solitary representative of the variety at the Proof-63 grade level in
the NGC Census Report, with just one other gilt J-272 listed there at a finer grade.
Another grand opportunity to obtain a recognized scarcity in the pattern series.NGC
Census: 1; 1 finer within the designation (Proof-64).From Stack's sale of the Di Bello
Collection, May 1970, Lot 484; Bowers and Merena's sale of the Bass Collection, May 1999,
Lot 1350.
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| Price: |
$3,800.00 (2007-01-02) |
| Original page: |
http://www.stacks.com/lotdetail.aspx?lri
d=AN00048280
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